NES

The NES instruction manuals weren't just simple how-to-play diagrams. They were also tasked with telling the story of the game, describing the enemies, and even providing maps to players who could get lost wandering around Hyrule. And today, Nintendo has put 30 classic NES manuals online, inclu…

Way back in April of 2010, Exploding Rabbit blew our minds with Super Mario Crossover, a fan-made game that put an entire team of classic NES characters from different games into the world of Super Mario Bros. Finally, my childhood dream of having Bill Rizer from Contra shoot Bowser in the face was …

A few weeks ago, we found out from Kotaku that Capcom and Sanrio were going to team up for a line of Hello Kitty/Street Fighter merchandise, and I for one haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. Sure, the partnership doesn't actually extend to video games, but what if it did...

Gaming: Batman: Arkham City will support both stereoscopic and old-fashioned anaglyph (red and blue glasses) varieties of 3D at launch. International: Robert Kirkman's Skybound imprint at Image has inked a deal for distribution in Asia, taking Invincible, The Walking Dead, Witch Doctor and more…

When people think about the heyday of the Nintendo Entertainment System, their thoughts are often of the games they spent a good chunk of their childhoods trying to conquer. For me, it all comes down to the thrill of wringing every penny out of Capcom's DuckTales, the monumental disappointment of Ca…

When I was talking about the upcoming "Thor" game last week, I got around the lack of screenshots by whipping up my idealized 8-bit game for the God of Thunder. And that got me thinking: What if they had converted my other favorite comics into 8-bit NES games -- or, in the case of …